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P1.07 - Poster Session with Presenters Present (ID 459)
- Event: WCLC 2016
- Type: Poster Presenters Present
- Track: SCLC/Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Presentations: 1
- Moderators:
- Coordinates: 12/05/2016, 14:30 - 15:45, Hall B (Poster Area)
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P1.07-051 - Incidence and Clinical Characteristics of Pulmonary Large-Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: An Overview of Our Own Data (ID 6188)
14:30 - 14:30 | Author(s): M. Serdarevic
- Abstract
Background:
Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors are a heterogenous group of neoplasms. They are clasified into four histological types: typical carcinoid, atypical carcinoid, small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC). They represent about 20% of all lung cancers. The most frequent one is small-cell lung cancer with incidence about 15%. In contrast, large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma is an orphan disease with estimated incidence between 2.1% and 3.5%. Because of many diagnostic difficulties, LCNEC is considered to be of a higher frequency. It is lung neuroendocrine tumor, but it is also a type of non small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). So its features overlap with both of these groups. However, the clinical behavior of LCNEC is very similar to SCLC and so new term high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma (HGNEC) is in use.
Methods:
We retrospectively analysed patients diagnosed with cancer at our department between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2014, with special focus on pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors. We examined incidence of different histologic types of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors and sorted out patients with diagnosis of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. We also analysed clinical characteristics of patients with LCNEC.
Results:
During the three-years period 1242 pulmonary patients were admitted to our department. Among them there were 726 newely diagnosed cancer patients. Various types of lung cancer were found in 652 patients. There were 104 patients with pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors, what makes about 16%. Thirteen of them (2%) were „pure“ LCNEC , 16 (2,5%) mixed LCNEC with small-cell component, 68 SCLC (10%), 4 atypical carcinoid, 2 typical carcinoid and 1 typical carcinoid in patient with adenocarcinoma. Generally in our patients high-grade neuroendocrine tumors make about 15%, and low-grade neuroendocrine tumors (carcinoides) make only 1% of all lung cancers. Most patients diagnosed with LCNEC were men over 50 years, heavy smokers, which is consistent with published data, but one patient was a 40-year-old woman.
Conclusion:
Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors are group of neoplasms classified into four categories based on their patohistology. Three of them (carcinoides and LCNEC) are rare tumors. LCNEC is type of neuroendocrine tumor with most diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. Clinical features of our patients are similar to previously published, while incidence is slightly lower.
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P3.02c - Poster Session with Presenters Present (ID 472)
- Event: WCLC 2016
- Type: Poster Presenters Present
- Track: Advanced NSCLC
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 12/07/2016, 14:30 - 15:45, Hall B (Poster Area)
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P3.02c-019 - The Use of Metformin and the Incidence of Metastases at the Time of Diagnosis in Patients with Lung Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes (ID 6116)
14:30 - 14:30 | Author(s): M. Serdarevic
- Abstract
Background:
Lung cancer is often insidious disease. It usually produces only a few symptoms until the disease is advanced. At initial diagnosis 20% of patients have localized disease, 25% of patients have regional metastasis and 55% of patients have distant spread of disease. Metastasis is a process by which a small number of cancer cells undergo numerous alterations, which enables them to form secondary tumors at another and often multiple sites in the host. Recently, studies have suggested that cancer stem cells are the originators of metastasis. Cancer stem cells are small populations of slowly dividing, tretment – resistant , undifferentiated cancer cells that are being discovered in a different cancers. Metformin has proved to be effective in the treatment of glioblastomas and neuroblastomas, in vitro, by targeting their cancer stem cell population. Recently, studies have shown that metformin use is not associated with a decreased risk of lung cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, but it has been suggested that metformin use is associated with improved survival among patients with stage IV NSCLC patients.
Methods:
The aim of our study was to compare incidence of metastasis in lung cancer patients (NSCLC and SCLC) that were treated with metformin and patients with lung cancer that were not treated with metformin. It is a retrospective analysis of lung cancer patients diagnosed at our department between January 1, 2012 and December 31 2013. and data were collected from our computerized base.
Results:
During the two-year period in our department there were 335 newly diagnosed lung cancer patients. Among them there were 25 (7%) patients with diabetes mellitus that were on therapy with metformin prior to lung cancer diagnosis for at least six months. We have proved significant difference between two groups in the incidence of patients with distant spread of disease (stage IV) at the time of diagnosis. Metformin group had a lower inicidence of stage IV at the time of diagnosis ( 44% vs 64%; x2 =4.14; p=0.041). The results did neither revealed a significant difference in total number of patients with distant spread nor in the type of metastasis.
Conclusion:
We have shown that patients that were treated with metformin had lower incidenece of distant metastases at the time of diagnosis. Further research should evaluate biologic mechanisms and test the effect of metformin on inhibiting the cancer spread in prospective clinical trials.
